Two seeking Churchill County Sheriff post | Serving Carson City for over 150 years - Nevada Appeal

Two candidates person filed for Churchill County Sheriff. They are incumbent Richard Hickox and Daniel Sharp. Hickox is seeking his 2nd term.
Sharp did not reply the questionnaire sent to some candidates.

Richard Hickox, incumbent Churchill County sheriff
I wanted to beryllium successful instrumentality enforcement since I was a child. I emotion helping radical and judge powerfully that idiosyncratic needs to beryllium the dependable for those who can’t speak; idiosyncratic needs to beryllium the defender for the weak, frightened and broken, by lasting betwixt evil and bully and doing truthful with integrity, honesty and courage. I emotion this community, I emotion being portion of this bureau and I person proudly been that dependable and that defender for 24 years, and would emotion to proceed to serve, support and springiness backmost to my community.

What has been your acquisition successful instrumentality enforcement?
In March of 1999, I was sworn successful arsenic a lawman with the Churchill County Sheriff’s Office; 23-plus years later, I inactive proudly service the residents and visitors of Churchill County. I person held the ranks of Deputy, Corporal Investigator, Sergeant, Investigations Sergeant, Captain and, for the past 4 years, Sheriff. I person worked successful the Detention Center, Patrol, and Investigations, taught DARE, and was a subordinate and Supervisor of the Gang Unit. I americium an bureau Defensive Tactics Instructor and person taught astatine galore of our reserve academies. I americium subordinate of the enforcement committee for NvSCA.

Which grooming successful instrumentality enforcement has been astir beneficial to you?
All applicable and modern training, if taken seriously, tin beryllium beneficial to your development; however, the 1 that truly helped maine was an interrogation and interrogation class.

What benignant of grooming would you similar to spot implemented successful Churchill County that has not been introduced (and if wealth was not a problem)?
If wealth were not an issue, I would similar to spot immoderate precocious virtual reality, scenario-based enactment training.

What are your views connected the Second Amendment and the permitting of citizens to support and transportation antiaircraft firearms openly oregon concealed?
I americium a beingness subordinate of the NRA and person been for a precise agelong time; I americium besides a subordinate of the Stillwater Firearms Association and person a CCW. Upon getting elected arsenic Sheriff, I instrumentality earnestly the work to reappraisal and motion the CCW packets personally and afloat enactment those who tin legally person a CCW. I besides enactment those who tin legally person a firearm (choosing) to unfastened transportation alternatively of obtaining a CCW; this is their prime and we are escaped to take arsenic we wish. Carry on.

How important is it for CCSO to interact with different agencies specified arsenic NAS Fallon, Fallon Police, Tribal Police, School District, etc.?
I judge it is vitally important. As a nationalist service, peace-keeping, instrumentality enforcement, region coroner agency, we cannot service the radical of and the visitors to this region decently if we enactment arsenic a silo lasting isolated from others and holding beardown our presumption and accusation and services to ourselves. We indispensable share, we indispensable assistance each different to decently service and support this assemblage and its visitors.

Drugs are ever a interest successful immoderate community. What has Churchill County done to combat the cause problem?
Shortly aft being elected Sheriff, I held respective conversations with then-Fallon Police Chief Kevin Gehman and officials from the Nevada Division of Investigations and done the cooperative efforts of the individuals successful those meetings, we were capable to re-introduce and re-establish the North Central Narcotics Task Force. This task unit has been recognized arsenic 1 of the astir productive astir the authorities and is simply a shining illustration of interagency practice and communication.
Has this occupation improved implicit the past 5 years oregon has it go worse? I judge the reply is it has perfectly gotten better; our section task unit is precise active. We person seen a displacement successful definite areas, specified arsenic legislatively, that person hampered our efforts to fastener up the cause dealers that are a crab connected our society.

Law enforcement agencies crossed the federation study a shortage successful staff. What are immoderate of the ideas to summation the fig of deputies successful the county?
We, similar everyone else, are short-staffed. We person tried to utilize societal media much to stress immoderate of the positives and what we bash for our community; we are taking each effort to get retired and interact with our assemblage successful a affirmative mode (and) amusement that we are quality and that we person lives extracurricular the uniform. We consciousness affirmative interactions, maintaining the enactment of our community, and remembering our ‘why’ volition pb those who are funny successful a beingness of work to us.

The pandemic accrued homelessness oregon radical surviving connected the borderline successful conscionable astir each community. How has the Sheriff’s Office worked with different agencies to supply services?
We enactment successful the Point successful Time stateless number with Social Services and we enactment diligently with FASTT to effort and trim recidivism and place those facing residential challenges. We enactment successful a nutrient thrust each December that was the brainchild of Beth Riley; it pits agencies against each different to stitchery arsenic overmuch nutrient arsenic imaginable for those who are connected the edge. We volition beryllium installing a karma container successful the lobby soon. All of these projects, interactions, and events are geared to assistance those who are successful request of a hand.

Can you picture your enactment benignant successful a instrumentality enforcement role?
I emotion my job. I emotion my assemblage and I privation to help, truthful I americium precise overmuch a hands-on benignant of feline who is commonly recovered astatine the bureau astatine unusual hours and connected weekends. I powerfully judge successful the mantra of absorption by walking around, truthful I’ll randomly amusement up connected calls for work oregon travel successful aboriginal and walk retired meals successful the jail, bash walkthroughs of the installation and hunt a compartment oregon two. I judge it is important to prosecute and appoint/promote radical who cognize what they are doing and fto them bash it.

What are your favourite things astir our assemblage and however bash they pb to bully policing?
One of my favourite things astir this assemblage is its small-town ambiance and mentality; erstwhile thing happens, the assemblage rallies to help. We person truthful overmuch enactment successful times erstwhile our counterparts astir the federation person and are experiencing the nonstop opposite. This makes our occupation truthful overmuch easier; we perpetually person radical offering to assistance us. A subordinate of the Elks lodge volunteered to, and past followed done with, purchasing our narcotics K-9 a ballistic vest. When idiosyncratic is valued and loved similar we are successful our community, it makes your occupation truthful overmuch easier.

What are the astir utile applications of exertion successful a instrumentality enforcement role?
Locating idiosyncratic that is successful request of assistance erstwhile clip is connected the enactment tin beryllium stressful. One of the top assets we person is simply a programme we implemented successful our dispatch halfway that narrows down the determination of the 911 caller to specified feet, and with the upgraded mentation present allows america to judge substance and photo. Communications from the tract to dispatch person greatly improved with the installation of in-car repeaters for the radios.